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"THE WHY 

AND THE WHEREFORE 

OF THE EUROPEAN WAR' 



Bible Study by 

Max Wertheimer, Ph. D. 

Ex' Rabbi 



FOR SALE BY 

., E. B. UNGER, 

I 1924 N. JUDSON ST., PHILADELPHIA. PA. 






Copyright, 1917 



JAN 31 1917 

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FOREWORD 



I can state positively that the fol- 
lowing pages contain substantially 
the message I delivered in the Bethle- 
hem Presbyterian Church, Philadel- 
phia, on November 19, 1916. Mr. E. B. 
tlnger, the stenographic reporter, took 
down my uttered words. May our 
Gracious Lord Jesus use them for 
strengthening the believers and for a 
testimonv to the worldly-minded. 

MAX WERTHEIMER. 



THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE 
OF THE EUROPEAN WAR" 



A few preliminary stateineiits ought 
to be made before giving the message. 
I want you to know that I sympathize 
with all suffering humanity; whether 
they be Germans, French, Russians, 
Greeks, English, or whatever national- 
ity or color they may be, my heart goes 
out for the orphans and the widows 
who are victims of terrific circum- 
stances. I shall speak tonight not from 
any patriotic standpoint, but simply as 
a student of prophetic history — that is 
the plan from which I intend to handle 
this subject. 

It has often been remarked, since the 
beginning of this war, that such high- 
ly civilized nations should be engaged 
in such a warfare, and that a nation 
like Germany, and one of the aggres- 
sors in the warfare, should be crowned 
with such great military successes. I 
say these things have been commented 
upon. 

Now I want you to notice that to- 
night T wish to lay down some methods 
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and some ways by which God gauges the 
nations. For instance, in the eighth cen- 
tury before Christ one of the most epoch- 
making nations of antiquity was the 
most successful in mihtary achieve- 
ments, and that nation, because of its 
mihtary exploits, was disposed to boast 
of its great achievements. Now in the 
10th chapter of Isaiah we get into the 
very heart and secret of why that na- 
tion was successful. That nation is the 
Assyrian nation. I will begin from 
the 10th chapter and the 5th verse, 
(oth to 7th verses.) And now a num- 
ber of statements are made relative to 
what this Assyrian says in his heart, 
which I will not read, but I will start 
from the 12th verse. In the 15th verse 
is what God says concerning this boast. 
The Lord says of this Assyrian, with 
such great military achievements and 
such great boasts, "What is he? Why 
he is an axe — I hew it; he is a staff — 
I swing it; and when I am done with 
it, I will break it in pieces and get me 
another one." 

In the 36th chapter of Isaiah this 
Assyrian again boasts — which I can- 
not read for lack of time — and in the 
26th and 27th verses of the 37th chap- 
ter the Lord again addressed him. We 
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have even a more remarkable case of 
military success in the 27th chapter of 
Jeremiah, and which is even more 
startling than the one of Isaiah X. — all 
of which brings us into God's ways and 
methods of looking at the nations. 

In the 27th chapter of Jeremiah, 
2d verse, Jeremiah is asked '^to make 
bonds and yokes and put them upon 
thy neck, and send them to the king 
of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and 
to the king of the Ammonites, and to 
the king of Tyrus, and to the king of 
Zidon, by the hand of the messengers 
which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah 
king of Judah." In the 4th verse they 
are to say unto their masters, "Thus 
saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of 
Israel; thus shall ye say unto your 
masters: 'I have made the earth, the 
man and the beast that are upon the 
ground, by my great power and by my 
outstretched arm, and have given it 
unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 
And now I have given all these lands 
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the 
king of Babylon, my servant; and the 
beasts of the field have I given him also 
to serve him.' " (7th to 12th verses.) 
It was really surprising that a heath- 
en king with such disregard for the 
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high God of Heaven should be given 
all these countries; that all these na- 
tions must put their neck under his 
yoke, and that even Israel, His cove- 
nant people, should be in servitude to 
a heathen monarch. I say this was the 
most sta.2;gering blow that was given 
at that time to the ancient people, and 
they could not fathom it. But four 
hundred years before Jeremiah proph- 
esied this there was a prophetic Billy 
Sunday of his day by the name of 
Amos. (Amos 1:2-3.) He was a cow- 
boy. I will read the remainder of the 
1st chapter of Amos and the 2d chap- 
ter, 1st to 9th verses. 

That God is still on deck. He is the 
God of the nations. He has never 
made an assignment. He is still ruling, 
beloved friends. 

To go back to the original statement 
with which we started out, I say it 
seems queer that out of the war suffer- 
ers little Belgium should be one of the 
worst, and if we believe in justifiable 
war we say Belgium is justified in tak- 
ing up arms against the invaders who 
had no other reason to go against it, 
but simply because Belgium lies in the 
pathway of Germany's greatest enemy, 
France. The man who from the sur- 



face looks at the thing is startled, yet 
any one who is conversant with Bel- 
gium's history says that God's hand is 
in it. 

Do you remember some time ago 
Stanley discovered an immense new 
territory in Africa that is known as the 
Congo Free State? Fourteen European 
nations and the United States agreed 
to reserve that great territory for an 
experiment in philanthropic civiliza- 
tion. Now no one of the larger coun- 
tries could take hold of that great terri- 
tory for fear of arousing the suspicion 
of the other powers that it would make 
aggressions for the country, and so all 
the nations acting together, agreed to 
appoint Leopold, the king of Belgium, 
as a joint trustee in the administration 
of that vast territory known as the 
Congo Free State, with an extent of 
about 9000 square miles, about as large 
as Austro-Hungary, France, Germany, 
Italy, Portugal and Switzerland com- 
bined. In due course there arose a 
demand for rubber, with which the 
forests of the Congo abounded. King 
Leopold leased concessions to the trad- 
ing companies, for which he received, 
it is claimed by some, as much as $14,- 
000,000 a year from these trading 



companies. He gave almost unlimited 
authority to these trading companies 
in the matter of dealing with the na- 
tives. As long as the rubber was forth- 
coming, and was secured near the 
villages in the forests, things were not 
so very distressing. Naturally the 
rubber within easy access gave out and 
the people who had to secure the rub- 
ber were compelled to go into the 
interior of the forests, and that entailed 
extra traveling and extra expenditure. 
Now the trading companies demanded 
that the same amount of rubber must 
be furnished and just as cheap as be- 
fore, whether the supply gave out or not. 
In the course of time, when the rubber 
was not forthcoming an assessment tax 
was imposed upon the natives, and 
when the assessment was not forth- 
coming there was enforced upon the 
people so-called punishment. This 
punishment ranged all the way from 
a mere flogging to cutting off a hand 
or foot or arm or dismembering the 
body and massacring whole villages, 
and these things were done to set an 
example to the other natives not to be 
lax in their rubber assessments. 

Now the native soldiers who exe- 
cuted these punishments thought this 

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was a fine chance to pay off old tribal 
grudges. It is claimed that since 1884, 
when King Leopold was made the 
trustee, or when he was appointed over 
that territory, that no less than 10,000- 
000 natives were slaughtered, and the 
cries of these natives were mounting 
up to Heaven, and the missionaries in 
the jungles in Africa were petitioning 
God Almighty to hear and intercede 
for that down-trodden people. He 
heard, and sent the Germans to de- 
vastate Belgium. We heard that they 
cut off the feet, cut off the arms, cut 
off the legs, dismembered the bodies, 
and massacred whole villages, and 
great persecutions were entailed. The 
God of the nations is still alive, beloved 
friends: He is still demanding just 
retribution. *See page 32. 

Let me go a little further. England 
is in this war. She is in this war from 
no will of her own choosing; she is in 
this war mostly because she has pledged 
her support to Belgium, by treaty. Now 
let us look at England. England's 
possessions in Africa have been com- 
paratively fairly well administered. 
Also, the administration in India was 
fairly good with some exceptions. How- 
ever, to civilize the vast plains of India 
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involved a great expenditure. How to 
meet this vast expenditure in order to 
civilize the great stretches of territory 
in India was a question. England in 
the last century, adopted the plan to 
raise opium in India and sell it in 
China. But at that time China herself 
was trying to stamp out that very drug 
from the nation; they were sick of it, 
yet England forced it upon China. By 
what is known as The Opium War of 
1840, followed by another war, they 
created a market for opium, which en- 
riched India but debauched China, and 
probably all the money England has 
made in opium she is going to lose in 
this war, because the God of the nations 
will demand a just settlement. You 
will find out another reason why Eng- 
land has war troubles in a minute or 
two. 

Now Germany is in this war. Why 
should she be in the war? Ger- 
many, the home of Martin Luther, the 
home of the Reformation, where great 
epochs were created through godly 
men. Germany, the home of Melanch- 
ton, Franke, Tholuck and Neander, 
Germany has a very kind-hearted 
population, and her people are quiet 
and obedient to the authorities. I am 

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not talking about the counnon people. 
I am talking about tlie bureaucracy, 
the officialdom that rules Germany. I 
wish you to notice, beloved friends, 
that in philosophy Germany has been 
the leader for centuries. Treitschke, 
who Avas for more than twenty years 
the most popular professor in Berlin, 
Avas one of the great leaders in phil- 
osophy. His great motto by which he 
guided his philosophical disputations 
was founded on this: ''Might is right!" 
Beloved friends, mere brute force is 
never right; not "might is right," but 
"Right^ — that is might." I believe when 
you have a foundation like this to build 
on, you cannot expect to raise a great 
structure that will be pleasing to our 
Lord. 

There was another great philosopher 
in Germany by the name of Nitzsche. 
He was the son of a Lutheran minister. 
This son had mental aberrations. He 
was in his insane moments locked up 
in an asylum. During his lucid in- 
tervals, however, he wrote a number of 
books. He died afterwards in that 
asylum, but those books that he had 
written are today the text books in 
universities. The leading thought in 
Nitzsche's philosophy is force, brute 

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force, the superman, '^der Ueber- 
mensch," as he calls it, an embodiment 
of brute force, a picture of Satan him- 
self. Anything that is powerful to 
knock down the weak, to get there by 
any means fair or foul, that is the 
emphasis of his philosophy. 

Beloved friends, the religion of Ger- 
many was powerless against teaching 
like that, for what is morally wrong 
cannot be politically right in the eyes 
of God. Germany has officially ac- 
cepted Evolution and Darwinism. She 
has been working overtime in that. She 
has been turning out thousands and 
thousands of students; students from 
all the countries; students from Eng- 
land, from France, from Austria, from 
Russia, from America, for the last two 
generations have flocked over to their 
universities and to their colleges and 
seminaries to drink from such poisoned 
wells teachings of rationalism and 
world wisdom, and after such a course 
of instruction they went back to their 
respective homes as teachers and 
preachers to undermine the faith of 
millions in the infallible word of God 
and the essentials of Christianity. 

I wish you to notice, if Evolution 
and Darwinism are right, then Ger- 

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many in this war acted perfectly cor- 
rect and orthodox. If Evolution is 
right, then Germany in her prepara- 
tion for war has been correct; for if 
Evolution is true, then such things as 
meekness, kindness, love, long suffer- 
ing, which are commanded by the 
Holy Scriptures, would be weak- 
nesses. According to Evolution a nation 
that indulges in tenderness and loving- 
kindness and unselfishness is unfit to 
survive. Germany has applied this 
Evolutionary process to commercial 
things, and brought on colossal monop- 
oly, industrial oppression and whole- 
sale thefts. It has also been applied to 
religion and religious literature, and 
has produced optimistic twaddles, un- 
concern for man's responsibility to God, 
and climaxed into higher criticism, 
which is simply Evolution applied to 
the inspired Scriptures. 

You have heard of the Father of 
Higher Criticism, Wellhausen, who 
said the Old Testament was a fabrica- 
tion of forgeries and lies, various man- 
invented documents patched together. 
He analyzed in this way the Old Testa- 
ment, but that wasn't sufficient; he 
also wrote a commentary on the New 
Testament. When he came to write 

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about the gospels of Matthew and Luke, 
he omitted the first two chapters of 
them because they deal with the super- 
natural, and according to Evolution 
such a thing is impossible, so he ig- 
nored the miraculous, the divine cre- 
dentials of God's workmanship. 

I was this summer in Baltimore 
preaching for three weeks, and I told 
those astonished people in Baltimore 
they need not be so staggered at my 
words against higher criticism, for 
they have officially adopted it in their 
Johns Hopkins University there — that 
propagates rapidly Wellhausen's the- 
ories. 

In Germany they had another 
writer by the name of David Strauss, 
who published about 82 years ago ''Das 
Leben Jesu." He presents the life of 
Jesus as a common, ordinary person, 
and the gospel as a fabrication of myth- 
ologies. I tell you the God of Heaven 
will not allow His Holy Immaculate 
Son to be insulted and evilly spoken 
of. And was it not eminently fitting, 
that God's scourge and battle-axe in 
His hand, should be that nation to 
which all the other nations have been 

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turning to get Evolutionary wisdom, 
culture, refinement and inspiration? 
And so, thus to call attention to the 
fruits of this Christian civilization 
(Gal. 6:7 expresses it all), what men 
and women need is not civilization 
merely, they must be born again (John 
3:3), spiritually regenerated, not ex- 
ternally veneered, but they need a 
mighty spiritual revolution from with- 
in. 

Germany is in this war for a purpose. 
England has not only had laid to her 
charge the idea of imposing opium on 
China, but, also the city of London 
today is a whirlpool of filth. Think 
of the godlessness, the worldliness, the 
neglected opportunities! They tell me 
that seventy-five per cent, of the popu- 
lation turn their backs upon the Christ 
of God and never enter a house of 
worship. It is even claimed officially 
by some that the universities of Cam- 
bridge and Oxford, instead of standing 
four-square for the deity of the Christ 
of God, are catering to the promiscuous 
population of Great Britain and are 
preaching Pantheism, Mohammedan- 
ism and Hinduism in their universities. 

But France is in this war too. What 
has France done? Let us say it in a 

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few words. Her legalized prostitution, 
her blatant atheism, and her ridicule 
of all that is spiritual, beloved friends, 
and many other things like anti-Semi- 
ticism in the Dreyfus case. All these 
things have worked havoc for the na- 
tion. Motherhood was ridiculed, and 
the smart set in France has always 
been the set that were the leaders. Now 
God says, "that for three and four 
transgressions I will hold France re- 
sponsible." 

Russia is in this war. What has she 
done? She has bottled up six millions 
of Jews in a limited pale, in Russia, 
and not permitted them to go out. She 
has closed the doors of her colleges and 
universities to most of the Jews, and 
if any Jewess today wants to go to a 
high school, or any college or universi- 
ty, first before she can do that she must 
go to the chief of police and ask for 
the yellow ticket of a prostitute and 
thus degrade her womanhood. That is 
Russia for you! Russia is a peculiar 
nation. The Greek Catholic Church 
has opposed itself to every advance of 
the gospel of the Christ of God. All 
these things stand charged against 
Russia. Need I speak of the cruel 
pogroms, the Kishinev massacres of 

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innocent Jews and Jewesses and the 
throttled voices in Siberia? 

What is the matter with Turkey? 
The wholesale slaughter of the Armen- 
ians, and the persecution of the people 
in Palestine. Turkey is usually called 
the ^'Sick Man." I want you to notice 
that Turkey holds the greatest gateway 
of commercial power in the East, for 
she holds the gateway from the 
Bosporus to Bagdad. They want a rail- 
way established from Bagdad to Baby- 
lon. When the long-talked-of Euphra- 
tes Valley Railway becomes a reality, 
Babylon will be one of the most im- 
portant and strategic places on the line. 
Few realize the magnitude of the 
Sultan's Asiatic dominions. They form 
the most important section of the 
earth's surface in connection with the 
international political situation of the 
near future. It is the most productive 
country between the Euphrates and 
the Tigris, but that fertile region needs 
irrigation of her ruined canals, and the 
German Emperor himself has an in- 
terest in the irrigation process. When 
once it is irrigated that land will pros- 
per and thrive and will be the granary 
of the world. Now Turkey has the key 
and has opposed all advance by others 

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and has been very obstinate to the 
spread of the gospel of the Christ of 
God. 

Well, Austria, what has she done? 
Austria is the land of the Blue Danube 
waltz, the land of fun and frolic. They 
ridicule all that is holy and godly. Of 
course, according to the Roman Cath- 
olic Church, they go to their masses, 
but the people at large in heart are 
atheistically inclined. The cruelty of 
the dead monarch, Francis Joseph, his 
double life, his estrangement with his 
wife, and his love affairs with other 
married women, the ruthless spirit of 
vengeance which controlled him in the 
early years of his rule — all these were 
seed-plots for this war in Europe, which 
has engulfed scores of nations and 
kingdoms. 

How about Italy and the other coun- 
tries? I will not go into detail about 
that. Suffice it to say that God is deal- 
ing with these nations for their na- 
tional sins. That is one reason why 
this war is on. Greece, Syria, Mace- 
donia, are in this upheavel — all this is 
prophetic territory according to Dan- 
iel (8th chapter) ; God is getting ready 
for that. 

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Now let me make a statement. The 
United States never got into this war. 
I am glad to say that while Ave had a 
President who was being criticised by 
others, he is at least a godly man, I 
believe — at least he stemmed the tide 
of warfare in this country. But this 
country itself has been the rebuke of 
the Lord, for you remember what hap- 
pened in 1861 to 1865. Slavery was 
charged against this country, and she 
had to yield the blood of her fathers 
and sons to wipe out this iniquity. 
While this country is not at Avar, it is 
paying war prices for its food. Let me 
tell you another thing. When I look 
around and see what is going on with 
the masses of America's promiscuous 
population on the Lord's Day; how 
they never come to the church, never 
have family worship; how the people 
do not care for God or Christ or the 
Holy Spirit, and there is no reverential 
attitude for the word of God today; 
when I see the United States is taking 
an enormous share from the whiskey 
traffic, and from what is sold to the 
warring countries, I tremble, for God 
will hold them responsible. This coun- 
try, beloved friends, has a state of op- 
pression coming on. Strikes and wars 

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are almost imminent. When I see this, 
I tremble; I tremble for America, be- 
loved friends. Sooner or later she will 
be engulfed in this universal agony of 
war. 

How did it come to pass that the 
people of Germany, France and the 
other nations, over night, as it were, 
were changed into maniacs, willing to 
pound and to rush upon one another 
and to murder each other? How did 
that happen? How did that happen 
over night? I am going to say some- 
thing I know will be received by some 
as a great superstition, but I want to 
tell you what the Lord declares. God 
says He employs satanic agencies in 
warfare. Refer to 1 Kings, 22d chapter. 
I will have to read some verses in order 
to make myself understood. 1 Kings, 
22d chapter. I will give you a second 
illustration in Revelation, 16th chap- 
ter, beginning with the 13th verse. 
(Verses 13 and 14.) Here you have 
something that is coming in the future. 

Now I am going to show you some- 
thing to which I alluded the other 
evening, but which was too horrible to 
give at that time, but I will refer to it 
now, and I refer to something that is 
almost unspeakable — the 9th chapter 

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of Revelation. Be sure that you see it 
in the word of God. (1st to 3rd verses, 
inclusive.) Now these are not material 
locusts, but these are demoniac mon- 
sters, demons dressed up like locusts. 
(4th to 21st verses, inclusive.) Now I 
will give you something even more 
startling than this prophecy, beloved 
friends. Take the 25th chapter of 
Jeremiah, beginning at the 15th verse. 
(15th to 33rd verses, inclusive.) Be 
sure you study this as God's spoken 
oracle. 

Beloved friends, ''God has a con- 
troversy with the nations." What is 
that controversy? They have turned 
their backs against the Christ of God, 
beloved friends. Remember that same 
Jesus who was crucified has been made 
Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36.) 

Now 1 am going to ask you which 
nation on earth today in official docu- 
ments ever acknowledges the lordship of 
Jesus Christ? And yet you say we are 
''Christian'' nations. I will tell you 
what they say: They acknowledge 
God Almighty, but the lordship of 
Jesus Christ is ignored by them all. 
God wants His Son Avell spoken of. The 
people that forget God — what about 
Psalms 9:17? He has a controversy 

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with the nations, and the controversy 
is about this. Worldly people are heard 
to exclaim that ''Christianity is a fail- 
ure," because it did not prevent this 
war. But the Christian Church was 
never commissioned to put an end to 
w^ar. That shows ignorance of God's 
word. The disciples of Christ were 
separated from the world and sent back 
into it, as citizens of a foreign country 
to present the claims of Jesus the Christ 
their King, urging faith and obedience 
to Him as the only way of salvation 
from sin, and His personal return to 
this earth as the only hope of the race. 
Their business was not to convert the 
world, but to "take out from the nations 
a people for His name." (Acts 15:14- 
18.) Wars must continue to the very 
end of age. (Daniel 9:24-27.) I have 
no quarrel with the Christianity of any 
nation, but I w^ant to say that there are 
no Christian nations acknowledging 
the lordship of the Christ of God. We 
have Christian individuals here and 
there who do acknowledge His lord- 
ship. 

Listen! I want you to notice, how- 
ever, that the so-called "Christianity" 
of the nations in Europe is a very cor- 
rupt Christianity; it is a perversion of 

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it, a counterfeit. When ,the Samaritans 
would not receive the Lord Jesus Christ 
the two disciples said to Him, "Send 
down fire among the Samaritans." 
Jesus said, 'The Son of Man is not 
come to destroy men's hves, but to save 
men's Hves." (Luke 9:55-56.) Our 
Lord never intends to shoot down peo- 
ple unless they take the law to them- 
selves. The Magistrate bears the Sword 
of Authority, according to Romans 
13:4. 

The Lord Jesus Christ is indeed the 
God of Love. He is also the Man of 
War to the rebels against His govern- 
ment. He must lead. He must be 
respected. The tocsin call of this 
slaughter that is going on everyw^here 
in Europe and the cry of these battles 
are that the people should repent and 
humble themselves before God and 
honor His crucified, risen and ascended 
Son, Jesus the Christ of God. All that 
we can do is to do precisely what Abra- 
ham did in behalf of Sodom and 
Gomorrah. (Genesis 18:24-32.) Let 
the godly remnant intercede for the 
sinners! In these days stand close to 
the Lord! 

President A¥ilson, when he was in 
St. Louis, made one of the most epoch- 

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makiDg speeches. He said, "We are 
living in times when I do not know 
what is going to happen in the next 
twenty-four hours." This is surely a 
crucial time. But God works accord- 
ing to His plan and counsel of His will, 
and not after that of conceited men. 

But the Jews are in this war too, 
aren't they? Five hundred thousand 
Jews are fighting against each other. 
German Jews fighting against French 
Jews. Russian Jews fighting against 
German Jews, and all this whirlpool of 
Jews against Jews, Catholic against 
Catholic, Protestant against Protestant. 
"The Lord is pleading with all flesh." 
But how about the Jews? The Jews 
will be so sick and tired and disgusted 
with the carnage that has been going 
on in Germany, Russia, France, Italy 
and Austria, that they will gladly 
go back to Palestine, at the op- 
portune hour on God's prophetic clock, 
and this war is God's beckoning to 
come back home. The time is up, and 
there is the call for Israel ; and while 
we say "we don't want to go back, 
America is good enough for us," the 
time is coming when He will cause all 
nations to drink of this frantic cup of 
war. Then the turmoil will be on. God 

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loves Israel, and He will make good 
His promises to patriarchs, prophets 
and priests of old — but according to 
His own word. If the United States is 
a nation, she will be included in this 
universal war. I pray that the Lord 
may hold off the crisis a little longer 
and give some people a chance to repent 
and get right with God. Oh, when I 
think of the millions of mothers that 
will be widows, and of children that 
will be orphans, and of fathers that will 
never come home when that war is 
over, I am perplexed! but this is 
Jehovah's Day of Vengeance. Sup- 
pose you woke up some morning, and 
overhead of you bombshells were com- 
ing down? A thought like this fifteen 
years ago would have brought laughter 
among any audience. Well, the people 
do not laugh today, beloved friends. 
The statesmen of the nation are puz- 
zled at the situation, they do not laugh 
nor rejoice — they hang their heads in 
perplexity. 

Now what will be the direct outcome 
of the war? What do they wage war 
for? The individual nations all have 
their peculiar reasons for it. Germany 
will say, ''We want to go East; we 
want to get to the granaries of the 

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world. 'Der Drang nach Osten.' We 
want that great Anatolian Railway 
from Konieli to Bagdad, and from 
Bagdad to Babylon." Great Britain 
will say, ''We want a railway from the 
Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, Egypt. We 
are imbued with Empire lust. We want 
to colonize Africa and Egypt." What 
does France want? ''We want to colo- 
nize ; more elbow room, more opportuni- 
ties for trade and industry." What is 
at the bottom of the whole outfit? The 
love of money is a root of all evil, be- 
loved friends. That is the point. God 
is pleading with all flesh. The French 
Revolution was horrible — when it burst 
the world was quiet. What will be the 
outcome of this war? I am not a 
prophet, nor the son of a prophet; my 
business is not to prophesy, but un- 
doubtedly some sort of a peace will be 
patched up to last forty or fifty years, 
but no permanent peace. You will 
notice they will have peace because 
their financial exchequers will be ex- 
hausted. They will have peace not 
because they want it, but because they 
will have to; they will have no money, 
and all the billions that have gone from 
this country I doubt very much if they 
will ever come back. AVhat will be the 

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outcome for this country? Is God a 
respecter of persons or nations? 

Now I ara going to make a prophetic 
statement before I close. God is going 
to have that controversy with the na- 
tions, but He postpones the punishment 
of that nation He has so long put in 
authority. What is that nation? Rus- 
sia. Read the 38th chapter of Ezekiel. 
I want to call attention to the 6th verse 
thereof that I have read. Among the 
nations that will be with Russia is 
Gomer and all his hordes. In the 10th 
chapter of Genesis, verse 3, we are told 
who Gomer and all his hordes are. One 
of the sons of Gomer is Ashkenaz. 
Any intelligent Jew who knows He- 
brew can tell you who these names 
refer to. Ashkenaz means Germany, 
and Ashkenazim are the Germans. I 
am not a prophet, nor a son of a 
prophet, but the time is coming when 
Germany will be under the dominion 
of, or in partnership with, the Czar of 
Russia, and Russia will be the greatest 
worldpower coming against Israel, and 
then God will punish Russia, the very 
last of Israel's oppressors. I don't say 
that this will be the outcome of this 
present war, but when the Lord Jesus 
Christ, the Messiah of Israel, appears in 

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Glory the 38th and 39th chapters of 
Ezekiel will be literally enacted. 

Now what is it we can learn, in con- 
clusion, that we can take home with 
us, beloved friends? Shall we boast 
that we are a great people, a great na- 
tion, with our arts, our sciences and 
discoveries? Shall we worship the 
works of our hands and forget the 
Christ of God? Shall we fall into this 
up-to-date fashionable idolatry? Then 
woe will follow/ I am inclined to read 
you a poem of Rudyard Kipling, writ- 
ten on the occasion of Queen Victoria's 
Jubilee in 1897 — of course written 
from an English standpoint, but true 
for us: 

God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle-line, 
Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine — 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget! 

The tumult and the shouting dies; 
The captains and the kings depart: 
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice. 
An humble and a contrite heart. 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget! 

Far- called, our navies melt away; 
On dune and headland sinks the fire: 
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! 
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget! 

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If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, 
Such boastings as the Gentiles use, 
Or lesser breeds without the Law — 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget! 

For heathen heart that puts her trust 
In reeking tube and iron shard. 
All valiant dust that builds on dust, 
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard. 
For Frantic boast and foolish word — 
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! 

Preparedness! Prepare! I want you 
to think of this: ''Prepare to meet thy 
God !" In this age of boasting, bragging 
and human conceits, the words of Jere- 
miah, 9th chapter, bring us to our 
senses! Jeremiah 9:23-24. 

''Thus saith the Lord, 'Let not the 
wise man boast or glory in his wisdom, 
neither let the mighty man boast or 
glory in his might, let not the rich man 
boast or glory in his riches : but let him 
that glorieth glory in this, that he un- 
derstandeth and knoweth Me, that I am 
the Lord which exercise lovingkind- 
ness, judgment, and righteousness, in 
the earth : for in these things I delight,' 
saith the Lord." 

Psalms 46:10 — "Be still, and know 
that I am God : I will be exalted among 
the nations, I will be exalted in the 
earth." 

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* "England is the land where the Bi- 
ble was honored; where religious free- 
dom was fought out; where missionary 
enterprises were inaugurated to the 
heathens, the Jews, and the unevan- 
gelized millions on the European and 
Asiatic continents." 

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